11TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Trade, Growth and Development

 
 
20
May
2024
Monday

Trade, Growth and Development Session 1 
Chair: Pao-Li CHANG (Singapore Management University & ABFER)

Venue: Ocean 5

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Labor Market Integration and Entrepreneurship
Wei LIN (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Hanming FANG (University of Pennsylvania & ABFER)
Ming LI* (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Discussant:
Bo ZHAO (Peking University)
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm
3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Trade and Technology Compatibility in General Equilibrium
Weili CHEN (Pennsylvania State University)
Jingting FAN* (Pennsylvania State University)
Wenlan LUO (Tsinghua University)

Discussant:
Dan LYU (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Does Access to Equity Promote Trade? Evidence from IPO Approvals in China
Robin Kaiji GONG (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Yao Amber LI (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Stephen Teng SUN* (City University of Hong Kong)

Discussant:
Bo LI (Peking University)


 
22
MAY
2024
Wednesday

Trade, Growth and Development Session 2
Chair: Heiwai TANG (The University of Hong Kong & ABFER)

Venue: Ocean 5

9:00 am – 10:00 am
The US-China Trade War and the Relocation of Global Value Chains to Mexico
Hale UTAR* (Grinnell College)
Alfonso Cebreros ZURITA (Banco de Mexico)
Luis Bernardo TORRES RUIZ (Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas)

Discussant:
Hong MA (Tsinghua University)
10:00 am – 10:30 am
10:30 am – 11:30 am
The Economic Dynamics of City Structure: Evidence from Hiroshima's Recovery
Kohei TAKEDA* (National University of Singapore)
Atsushi YAMAGISHI (Princeton University)

Discussant:
Wen-Tai HSU (Academia Sinica & ABFER)
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
The Long and Short-Run Spatial Impacts of Trade
Lin MA* (Singapore Management University)
Yunlong SONG (Singapore Management University)
Yang TANG (Nanyang Technological University)

Discussant:
Bingjing Li (The University of Hong Kong)


* Presenter. Program is subjected to change. Updated 30 May 2024.

Session Format

Three papers will be presented during each session. Each paper lasts for one hour, including 25 minutes for presentation, 20 minutes for discussion and 15 minutes for Q&A. There will be a 30 minutes break after the first paper.

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Program Director Conference Organizer

Nancy QIAN (Northwestern University & ABFER)
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Michael SONG (The Chinese University of Hong Kong & ABFER)
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Pao-Li CHANG (Singapore Management University & ABFER)
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Davin CHOR (Dartmouth College & ABFER)
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Jennifer LA’O (Columbia University)
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Heiwai TANG (The University of Hong Kong & ABFER)
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